Accounts Receivable Specialist

Legacy Health; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 29,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon is seeking an Accounts Receivable Specialist to ensure timely payments from patients and third-party payors. You will scan mail, process electronic and hardcopy payments, and run daily tapes on insurance voucher checks and personal payments.

The role may involve specializing in particular payment types or remittances and reviewing daily credit balance reports. Qualifications include a high school diploma and about a year of healthcare clerical or billing

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One year healthcare clerical or billing/cashiering experience preferred.
• Experience with electronic data preferred.

Responsibilities

• Receives payments from patients and third-party payors and records amount received.
• Scans mail into electronic work bucket and processes workload to resolution.
• Monitors and processes electronic payment interfaces and hardcopy payments.
• Runs daily tapes on insurance voucher checks and personal payments.
• May specialize in types of payment or components of essential functions as needed.
• Produces daily credit balance reports.

Skills

Typing 40 wpm

10-key by touch

Medical terminology

Independent judgment

Interpersonal skills

Public relations

Adaptability

Education

High school graduate

Job description

Overview

Your expertise will ensure that payments from patients and third-party payors are made in a timely fashion, so we can continue our mission of making life better for others. We’ll rely on your ability to scan mail into electronic work bucket and process workload to resolution; monitor and process electronic and hardcopy payments; and run daily tapes on insurance voucher checks and personal payments. If you have these skills, we invite you to apply for this Accounts Receivable Specialist role.

Responsibilities

• Receives payments from patients and third-party payors for hospital and medical services and records amount received.
• Scans mail into electronic work bucket and processes workload to resolution.
• Monitors and processes electronic payment interfaces as well as hardcopy payments.
• Runs daily tapes on insurance voucher checks and personal payments.
• May specialize in types of payment, such as individual insurance checks, Workers Comp remittance, Clinic/Physician remittance, Medicare/Medicaid remittance or may specialize in one or more components of the essential functions or may be required to work with any combination of specialties.
• Works daily credit balance reports.

Qualifications

Education:

• High school graduate or equivalent

Experience:

• One year of healthcare clerical experience or healthcare admitting experience or applicable billing/cashiering experience.
• Experience working with electronic forms of data preferred.
• Healthcare cashiering experience preferred.

Skills:

• Net Typing of 40 wpm and PC based computer skills.
• 10-key by touch.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision, exercising independent judgment within stated guidelines.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills which promote cooperation and teamwork.
• Ability to withstand varying job pressures and organize/prioritize related job tasks.
• Excellent public relations skills and demonstrated ability to communicate in calm, businesslike manner.
• Ability to adapt to change.

Pay Range

USD $21.25 - USD $30.39 /Hr.

Our Commitment to Health and Equal Opportunity

Our Legacy is good for health for Our People, Our Patients, Our Communities, Our World. Above all, we will do the right thing.

If you are passionate about our mission and believe you can contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply—even if you don't meet every qualification listed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed.

Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.